n no time, Lauretta was on the floor too, obviously unconscious. Although the fight might have seemed tough on the outside, it was actually all done quickly with less power to be expended. He didn’t seem short of breath by even a single bit and still seem like he could handle two or three more of someone in the sensory realm before feeling exhausted.

Those behind him were all relieved at this result and couldn’t help breathing sighs of relief. Seeing that Lauretta was defeated, means that only the leader of the bandit was remaining, and if they could defeat him, they could escape from this nightmare that has come to haunt them.

Smiles could be seen on all their faces but on the opposite side, although the bandits behind their leader were quiet, they were frowns all visible on their faces and if the leader just gives them the order, they were ready to pounce on Andrew disregarding their lives.

Although they all saw what has happened to their commanders, it didn’t kill their will to fight or their bloodthirstiness but rather increased it to a greater level. Andrew was thankful the girls were not present beside him, if not they would have been choked by such an accumulative aura. Only the leader still seem to have that carefree smile on his face as if it wasn’t his commanders who were just beaten.

Ceros moves at a quick rate and arrives beside Andrew seemingly ready to join him in this last battle to seek a way to end things earlier on. He has even developed the mindset that the person in front of them didn’t deserve the name he had initially gotten and people were just exaggerating about his prowess and brutality.

He started having a feeling of complacency, while Andrew who was beside him was the direct opposite of him. He understood that this would be another life-threatening battle he has to be in. He didn’t have any feeling of being able to defeat the leader and if possible would have preferred to avoid him. But he had to try attacking before the leader did and test the waters just to be sure if he even had up to a one percent chance at winning.

The leader while staring at Andrew mused about the recently concluded battle and thought, ‘I guess I didn’t misjudge him after all. To get to this stage at his age is nothing short but a miracle, he seems to be better than that new kid whom the royal family is festering’.

On noticing the aura which was being built up by his underlings, he turns and just his gaze caused them to grunt in fear as they all reined in their auras.

At this moment, before turning back towards Andrew and Ceros, an attack came very quickly that even the underlings were shocked by the underhanded method of the attacker. But without even looking toward the attacker, the leader just raises his hands to block the incoming strike.

The attacker sneers inwardly while feeling that this attack would surely take the hand of the leader. The attacker was revealed to be Andrew who had thought about catching the leader off guard and hence attacked the moment he saw him move his line of sight.

“Kid, you do know how to attack dirty. You are of a pure bandit potential”, the leader’s voice sounds out while the cutlass breaks into two hitting his arm which he raised.

Andrew had an incredulous feeling as he fell forward after his attack was broken through that easily and without even much effort.

Now he understood the chasm that exists between him and this bandit leader. But on noticing the leader didn’t follow up with any attack, he pushed himself back towards his former position with the broken half of his cutlass still in his hands. All that was going through his head was that, ‘My cutlass broke easily as a twig after hitting him. And it was done with his bare hands. He didn’t have to put in much effort’.

He couldn’t stop replaying the situation which has just occurred as he starts sweating. Ceros who was by his side on seeing the situation that just played out couldn’t help gulping hard and his recently developed complacency vanished without a single trace.

The bandit group behind just had sneers plastered on their face as if they were mocking Andrew and had expected such an outcome from the beginning.

“It’s not like there ain’t weapons which can injure me and you could have even killed me with just your cutlass. It’s just that you are too weak”, the leader’s voice woke Andrew from his thoughts and he stares at Andrew in an intimidating manner.

Andrew doesn’t argue with him and just stares at him, he understood that this wasn’t like the case with the wolves where there was normally a chance to defeat them.

He understood deeply that he couldn’t even defeat this person in front of him.

“You shouldn’t take it to heart though. You are already great at this age of yours being able to reach this stage in even a run-down village”, the leader says once again to Andrew, after a moment he continues, “You are a real potential kid. What’s your name?”.

Andrew continues staring at him still not replying. The man still keeps his smile on his face and as if forgetting something, he taps his head gently before saying, “Where are my manners? It’s common courtesy to say my name first. People know me overly as ‘the ruthless overlord’, but my real name is Edson. Am nothing but a peace-loving human, who preaches peace all over the kingdom. But some people don’t just know how to grab the message”.

“Andrew”, this time, Andrew replies without hesitation. Edson laughs cheerfully before saying, “See, we are already getting quite along”, his face becomes serious all of a sudden before saying, “So Andrew, would you mind joining my peace preaching organization?”.

Andrew senses the seriousness in the voice and thus asked, “Am I joining as the leader of the organization?”.

Edson becomes mute for a while trying to process the question being asked by Andrew before saying, “If you eventually get stronger than me, you can of course”.

Andrew just shakes his while relaxing his body with a sarcastic smile plastered on his face while saying, “I am not interested in waiting that long, sorry to say”.

Surprisingly Edson does not get angry at the way Andrew spoke and just looks around at his commanders who were lying unconscious, then he says in a tone that seems like he was just ordering some food albeit in a polite tone, “Then I guess you would just have to die then. What a wasted talent. Sighs”.

Ceros who was beside Andrew just shouts in his girlish voice towards Andrew, “You know what to do then. I would try to hold him off for as long as I can. So make a run for it”. Edson doesn’t even look towards them while they were making their plans as he gave orders to his underlings for them to retrieve the commanders.

On noticing that he didn’t seem to care about their plans, Andrew shoots off in the direction of the girls. He could have run alone and thus be able to successfully escape since he was capable of hiding his aura, it would have been a valuable gadget in his escape but since he had to take the two girls, that ability to have his aura hidden is useless since the girls can still be found out.

Hence he tries running towards the girls and the girls being smart a bit have already alighted from the carts, hence as Andrew got there, all he just had to do was pick them up and pick a direction before running towards there.

It was at this point that Eve started trembling hard on his body, although it wasn’t to the extent that made him uncomfortable in his escape.

He just tries peeking behind him and he sees Ceros lying in a close to dead state on the floor. He wasn’t even able to put up a single struggle and blood was gorging out from his mouth with his eyes wild open. He seem like he wanted to say something but no words were coming forth, and soon he was no deader than dead.

Although Andrew expected such a scenario, it was still shocking as formerly Edson has been busy ordering his underlings and it hasn’t taken more than five seconds for him to come before the girls due to his explosive speed but it was in that time that Ceros has been killed and Edson was currently nowhere to be found.

Something was screaming once again inside Andrew to run for his life and he did exactly as it said. He looks in the direction of some thick vegetation, running at his full speed, he was just a bit of a distance from entering the coverage of the vegetation when a voice sounds out as if it was directly beside him saying, “There is something you should know about realms. Although the name might sound impressive, as you advance in each realm so does your reserve power and there is a bit of increase in your explosiveness and control of your former realms. It is just like building a house, you need a solid foundation to build it on and each realm is just like building a solid foundation and you can’t build a small-sized foundation for a big-sized house right?”, the voice most certainly came from Edson without a single iota of doubt.

He didn’t know how Edson got to him this quickly but after his words, he had an inkling. But he was not able to think much further though as blood spurts from his mouth while his grip on the two girls loosens up.

At an unknown time, a hand passed through the right side of his chest directly opening on the other side, what an irony. It was directly the situation he had put George in not too long. Karma came for him quickly in such a manner.

Although his heart was not in that position, it was still a deadly injury. Edson says at this moment in absolute mockery, “You want to be the leader, Huh? Someone like you who is not fit to see my sword, my hands are enough to kill you. Although you are a genius, what’s the purpose of being a genius if you die early”.

While saying that he retrieved his hands from the body of Andrew while Andrew staggers to the side while coughing out blood profusely. The two girls were shocked at what happened just now and although knew they were in a dangerous situation, didn’t expect it to be this dangerous. Marian felt crushed, while Eve couldn’t quite believe what was happening.